23 March 2012

Spring Me

The trees are blooming, the frogs are singing, and the moths are hanging outside the front door trying to terrorize Two.

But this is the surest sign that Spring has arrived:

This weekend, various members of the family will play basketball, baseball, and hockey, sometimes in the same day. On Saturday morning, Five will miss baseball practice, because we have to attend his First Holy Communion retreat. At the same time, the Captain will coach Three's basketball team to victory in game two of the championship series. At two o'clock, Three will go to baseball practice, and at four-thirty I will drive him to his basketball league practice. The Captain and Two will go to five o'clock Mass, so Two can fulfill his Greeter commitment for Confirmation.

At eight a.m. Sunday morning, Two gets on a bus to go shoot paint balls at his friends. At nine o'clock, Five attends CCD. At six o'clock Five goes to baseball practice, and shortly thereafter the Captain leaves for hockey. During taxi downtime, Two has to finish a science project and pack for Europe. He leaves on Thursday with his choir to go sing in cathedrals in Vienna and Prague.

18 comments:

As if having five boys and many sports isn't enough, you have to throw religion into the mix, too? You and the Captain may have to clone yourselves. Or invent the transporter. Or (just possibly)get one or two of the boys to give up sports and become computer geeks :-) You know, just to give you a rest!

Yep. I feel your pain. My boys have an AAU Basketball tournament both Saturday and Sunday, My oldest has play practice and I'm sure I'll discover that my youngest has a commitment I haven't heard about yet. Oh, and I'm having a mom's night at my house so there's cleaning and cooking to do! But still not nearly as bad as your schedule - so you get the prize Megan!

Me ~ look! (As we drove past the high school.) Baseball boys!Him ~ good day for practice. (It was sunny, very very sunny out.)Me ~ Do you think Five's team has started theirs yet?Him ~ Year two, it's gonna be a good one!

Ages ago my days looked very similar. ;)(But I agree with Kewl Kate, you totally win the prize here.)

Five is very excited. He can't BELIEVE he has to miss the first practice, especially because his best friend, Tom G., is on the team. Five reminded us that he is "like the Derek Jeter of Little League." I'll be looking for the second grade supermodels in the stands.

I would like stock in Advil. At least then I would be earning some of my money back. Everything in my house is fixed with ice and Advil.

Yes, we're happy someone in our family will see Europe. Of course, I still haven't picked up those euros, or called the cell phone company to ask about international rates, or gotten that pre-paid Visa...

On any given day, I would most definitely trade in 3,4,or 5 for the world. Actually, right now I would mostly trade 2 for a warm part, possibly an island, with attractive manservants. When all those things come together, most of the pack will probably be gone anyway. So never mind.